There is a man, a follower of Jesus Christ, he is a
Christian, and can we call him a devoted one? Whichever, this is because this
Man will never miss any of the many church services, talk of the Tuesday
service, he is always there, he is never found wanting on Thursdays, the same
thing applicable with the Friday evening Jesus hour, where the members of their
notable church usually turnout massively, do you know the special thing about
this service, this is the high turnout of peoples, the people of the church do
not always attend the bible expository class that usually takes place in the church every Tuesday, like the
Friday Jesus hour, the members cherish the prayer meeting very well because
they usually wage holy war against their enemies.
Though,
this Man is not a pastor in the church, but
he happen to be one of the deacon in the church, an agile minister,
despite how busy he is as a senior lecturer in one of the higher institutions
in the city, this man will always meet
up with every appointment in the church
of God. Apart from been a deacon in the church, he is also the coordinator of
some other fellowships in the church, like the Men fellowship, Welfare
Department, etc, not only this, He is also a Man give out to support the church
projects in cash and kind. But this Man has some things he is not very good at doing,
can we say it’s due to some characters? This man is a complete gentle man, whom
you will hardly see talk to people, whenever he is at
home, he will never move out of his house unless he was going to the
church, whenever he is in the office, been
one of the chief lecturers in the department he belongs to, he will
never be seen discussing any issue with his colleagues in the school, he always
claim he had no time for all those things, he never preach to students, he sees
it as downgrading, a senior lecturer to
students, preaching to his colleagues was also not a part of himself, he sees
them as sinners of the highest order, they are not so good in their behaviour,
this is because this men practice all sorts of immorality, in their offices,
another thing he hates doing, is that, he never honour any Christian activities
going on within the campus, he claim that the students are not all holy, all
their so called activities are unacceptable sacrifices before God, this man
strongly believe in living a private life that is mainly between himself and
his God alone.
Indeed,
this man reminds me of the story of Nicodemus, the Pharisee, who was also
highly placed among the people, (a ruler of the Jews) who came to the Jesus at
night, what a religious Nicodemus, yet he could not risk his high esteemed
statue among the society, therefore, He came to visit Jesus at night, this
means, he did not want people to recognize him with Jesus. Today, we have a lot
of Nicodemus in the church of God, who despite how influential they are in the
society, will never show their true colours as a true believer, they have
forgotten that since Jesus died for them in the public, they must serve him in
the private, he was stricken and beaten in the public, serving him in the
closet is highly prohibited, Nicodemus believed in Jesus, he love Jesus, but
can he be compared with Zacheus?, while Zacheus was thirsting to see Jesus,
though in the public, he never mind, he climbed up to the sycamore tree, just
to see Jesus, but Nicodemus, a man who though wanted to relate with Jesus, he
paid a night visit to him, what a behind the scene disciple? Yet we were made
to understand that if we suffer with him, we shall reign with him, if we deny
him, he also will deny us, 2nd Timothy 2:12, Are you not ANOTHER NICODEMUS?
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